Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel
by John Kloppenborg
In this tour de force , the author offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of Q, the collection of Jesus' sayings long hypothesized as the source for the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke. Part I deals with the methods for studying Q, their presuppositions, and a survey of current research. Part II addresses more theological and theoretical issues relevant to the Synoptic Problem, Q as a document, its redaction, and its social setting.

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The First Historians. The Hebrew Bible and History
by Baruch Halpern
'The First Historians is a book that no one with serious interest in biblical scholarship can afford to neglect. Halpern is one of the most fertile, exuberant, and audacious minds of his generation. He is witty, learned, and outrageous in turn, a Momigliano of Hebrew historiography. One learns more from one book by Halpern than from a dozen by his plodding peers.' -Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University.

ISBN: # 0271016159

David's Secret Demons. Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King
by Baruch Halpern
During Biblical times as well as our own, the winners wrote the history, says Halpern (Jewish studies, ancient history, classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, and religious studies, Pennsylvania State U.). He argues that the faction of David and Solomon wrote what is now the Book of Samuel account of their period, downplaying the accomplishments of Saul as the same time David pursued his agenda of murdering the entire family. Here is the other story.

ISBN: # 0802844782

The Philistines in Transition: A History from ca. 1000-730 BCE
by Karl Ehrlich
This study of the history of the Philistines during the first quarter of the first millennium B.C.E. has a twofold aim: First, to examine in detail a number of ancient texts, mainly biblical until the rise of the neo-assyrian empire, while evaluating each text in its own right as a potential historical source. Second, to offer a synthetic reconstruction of the course of Philistine history between 1000 - 730 B.C.E., employing the results of the textual study in conjunction with those of recent archaeological excavations in Philistia. This is the first monograph to be devoted to the Philistines during this critical period in the history of the Ancient Near East.

ISBN: # 9004104267

Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature
by Annette Yoshiko Reed
In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the "sons of God" of Gen 6:1-4 are accused of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. By tracing the transformations of this motif in Second Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, late antique, and Byzantine Christianity, this book sheds light on the history of interpretation of Genesis, the changing status of Enochic literature, and the place of parabiblical texts and traditions in the interchange between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

ISBN: # 0521853788